Fallout 4 News

Todd Howard says Fallout 4 nearly had a "BioShock style" underwater vault

One of my favourite things about the Fallout series is learning what weird and wonderful experiments took place in its vaults. There was the one where everyone lived in a VR simulation, another testing cryosleep, as well as one where a panther was let loose. The developers had more plans for these bomb-proof bunkers that never quite made it into the games though. Bethesda director Todd Howard revealed last night that Fallout 4 almost had an underwater vault with a giant octopus, which sounds slightly terrifying.

What happens in New Vegas stays in New Vegas, they say, though New Vegas itself will not stay in Fallout: New Vegas. A new mod named Project Mojave is attempting to recreate a lot of the post-apocalyptic Sin City and surrounding areas as a Fallout 4 mod, and you can play the first slice now. But to manage your expectations: it is not an attempt to recreate Obsidian Entertainment's game Fallout: New Vegas inside Fallout 4.

The new Project Mojave mod for Fallout 4 is out now, and what it does is bring the world of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas to the more updated engine - featuring a remake of roughly a quarter of the game's map, including the New Vegas strip and "three functional casinos".

Of course, we've seen mods that attempt to put previous series titles into more modern engines before - most notably the likes of Skyblivion and Skywind, which are both probably still years away, despite reports to the contrary. However, the only real attempt to put Fallout: New Vegas into Fallout 4 seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Fallout 4: Project Mojave, however, is out now and can be downloaded at Nexus Mods (thanks, DSOGaming). It's only "an early access look" that includes the lower half of the Mojave Wasteland map, but does feature the iconic Vegas Strip - as well as the ability to build three functional casino games to play on the strip.

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Fallout 4 mod Sim Settlements 2 gets a "DLC-sized expansion" this fall

One of the best Fallout 4 mods around is getting a hefty new update later this year, the team behind Sim Settlements 2 has revealed. The aptly named Sim Settlements Team has posted a new trailer unveiling a "DLC-sized expansion" to the mod, which will feature Fallout 4's ruthless mercenary Gunners as a "fleshed-out faction" - and it's due to arrive sometime this autumn.

Called 'Gunner Outbreak', the new mod expansion's trailer gives a good flavour of what's to come, introducing us to the kinds of people and places we can expect to see (embedded below for you to check out). We see the ominous arrival of Captain Wes and his crew of Gunners at a thriving settlement, with the fearsome leader declaring that it's now under his faction's control, with some threats dished out at its poor populace to keep them in line. Eek.

While we only get a feel of the mod expansion's storyline in broad strokes in the clip, it looks like it'll see a group of rebels band together in the wake of the Gunners' arrival. There's brand-new - and impressive - voice acting featured, along with a bunch of other new content to dive into. The mod adds "new disease mechanics, multiple large questlines, and a brand-new game mode where you establish your own faction headquarters", the clip's description explains.

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Here's the trailer for chapter 2 of Fallout 4's best mod

The impressive Sim Settlements 2 mod for Fallout 4 has announced that its new update, Gunner Outbreak, is coming this fall. A feature trailer, above, introduces the characters and locations that define the chapter update's expansion of the Sim Settlements storyline...
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